In Pakistan, China and the U.S. are clashing over China’s One Belt, One Road initiative. To understand what’s at stake, it helps to take a look at why China is in Pakistan in the first place (Wall Street Journal). ^^ MOBILE? USE VOICE MIC ^^ facebook … GET ALERTS on Facebook.com/ArlingtonCardinal GET ALERTS on Facebook.com/CardinalEmergencies […]

Police in Pakistan are hunting militants behind a suicide bomb attack that has killed at least 70 people and injured at least 341 people. A bomb was detonated about 6:45 p.m. Easter Sunday in a neighborhood park in Lahore. The blast in Gulshan Iqbal Park killed a large number of women and children. Although the […]

Tashfeen Malik, age 27, was killed in a police shootout on San Bernardino Avenue in San Bernardino on Wednesday, December 2, 2015, according to law enforcement authorities. At the time of the shootout, Malik and her husband Syed Rizwan Farook were suspects in the killing of 14 people and the wounding of 17 people at […]

A 36-foot-long whale shark was brought to the Karachi Harbor on Tuesday morning by local fishermen who claimed to have found it dead in the open sea though some experts believed that the shark might have been killed after it got entangled in a net. The whale shark is a fish — a slow-moving filter […]

Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant, was tweeting about some unusual helicopters over his neighborhood near Abbottabad’s Jalal Baba auditorium. He was joking about using his giant helicopter swatter to stop them. He even linked to a news site that proves his helicopter swatter works. The news reported a helicopter crashed near the Pakistan military academy […]

Osama bin Laden, accused of leading the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil on September 11, 2001, has been reported killed. The United States has possession of the body. President Barack Obama began speaking about the news from the White House at 11:36 p.m. CDT. A unnamed source had leaked that Osama bin Laden (also […]

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked a remote area of southwestern Pakistan early on Wednesday. Tremors were caught on a news network’s security cameras, and the shaking could be felt as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has been reported in Pakistan — affecting the cities of Lahore and […]

NOV 08 2010 — Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a judge in a local court in the town of Sheikhupura, near Lahore, Pakistan after she was found guilty of blasphemy for speaking freely about Christianity to Muslim women working with her at a farm. The judge also fined Asia $1,190 (U.S.) and advised […]

Five American men were convicted on Thursday on “terror” charges by a Pakistani court and sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that has heightened concerns about Westerners traveling to Pakistan to contact Islamist extremist groups. Five US citizens were sentenced to ten years in prison in Pakistan for contacting militant groups and […]